New Hires In Social Gaming: Digital Chocolate, Zynga, Playdom, & More

The number of hires in the social gaming industry was slightly lower last week versus this week, according to LinkedIn data. Only four of the major social developers did any hiring, with only Zynga making significant additions in the numbers category — at least that are visible.

Of all the hires, Digital Chocolate hosted the biggest. It poached iWin Co-Founder, David Fox as a new Vice President. A new startup, Rocket Ninja, also announced a few notables.

As always, if your company is bringing on new people or making a notable promotion, please let us know. Email editor (at) insidesocialgames (dot) com, and we’ll get it into this or next week’s post.

Randy Fish — We caught wind of two hires for the startup Rocket Ninja. Randy Fish is first on the list with experience stemming from Rich Relevance, where he worked to provide recommendations and personalization to e-commerce sites such as Sears.com, Walmart.com, and Overstock.com. He joins Rocket Ninja as their Chief Technology Officer.

Neil Haldar — Also on our list is Neil Haldar who joins Rocket Ninja as an Executive Producer. Haldar comes with experience as VP of Content Programming & Strategy at SkyZone Entertainment as well as VP of Production & Development at MGM Interactive.